SAFETY & ENVORINMENTAL COORDINATOR

This hourly role reports to the Site Operations Manager, with additional accountability to the KRPI Safety and Environmental Manager. The position is part of KRPI’s Pay for Skill structure and requires operational credibility, training capability, documentation discipline, and hands-on follow-through.

Responsibilities

• Support KRPI and Knife River safety and environmental improvement plans.
• Manage site-level safety program activities, training logs, program owners, and awareness-level training.
• Maintain strong presence in plant, yard, shop, and production areas to identify hazards, coach safe behavior, and reinforce expectations.
• Support required training, including new-hire orientation, incident response, and assigned program training.
• Investigate incidents and near misses, facilitate root cause analysis, and coordinate corrective actions.
• Track KR Cares Cards, trends, compliance gaps, and follow up actions.
• Support OSHA, state, local, environmental, permit, stormwater, wastewater, spill prevention, and company compliance.
• Coordinate environmental reporting with Knife River's Environmental, Permitting & Property Manager.

Requirements

• 1-3 years of safety, environmental, manufacturing, or construction experience.
• Basic knowledge of OSHA regulations and workplace safety programs.
• Must have, or obtain OSHA 10 within four weeks of start date.
• Must have, or obtain OSHA 30 within twelve weeks of start date.
• Experience conducting inspections, audits, or incident investigations.
• Strong communication and training skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and data entry/reporting systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in prestressed/precast concrete, manufacturing, or construction materials.
• Safety certification or progress toward certification (e.g. CSP or equivalent).
• Experience supporting environmental compliance programs.
• Knowledge of lockout/tagout, fall protection, mobile equipment, and machine guarding.
• Experience delivering safety orientations or training sessions.
• Spanish language ability is advantageous.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, HSA/FSA, life insurance, EAP.
• 401(k) match, paid time off, and paid holidays.
• Pay for Skill advancement, annual COLA review.
• $1.00/hour seniority premium for each 10 years of full-time service.